{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Heyderia abietis 52203.jpg | image_caption = ''Heyderia abietis'' | taxon = Heyderia | authority = (Fr.) Link | type_species = ''Heyderia abietis'' | type_species_authority = (Fr.) Link | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivisions = }}
'''''Heyderia''''' is a genus of fungi in the family Hemiphacidiaceae.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archive-date=2009-03-18 }}</ref> The genus contains six species.<ref name=Dictionary10th>{{cite book |vauthors=Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |edition=10th |publisher=CABI |location=Wallingford |year=2008|isbn=0-85199-826-7|page=316}}</ref>
The genus name of ''Heyderia'' is in honour of Johann Ernst Friedrich Heyder (1765-1797), who was a German doctor and botanist from the 'Universitäts-Chirurgicus' in Göttingen.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>
The genus was circumscribed by Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link in Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. (Lipsiae) on page 36 in 1797.
==Species== *''Heyderia abietis'' *''Heyderia agariciphila'' *''Heyderia americana'' *''Heyderia cucullata'' *''Heyderia pusilla'' *''Heyderia sclerotiorum''
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